Singapore Transformers Sightings

Discussion in 'Transformers Sightings' started by Super_Megatron, Oct 23, 2007.

  1. deathdrive

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    I know its a hard pill to swallow but honestly, nobody should get into TF or any collecting and expect to make back the money down the line.. the best you can hope for is to host a sale table at a convention or just sell off stuff on carousell.

    I know this guy who bought TR grotusque in bulk, tried to sell off at a super high price and never made any sales, now theres the takara version coming. I told him "karma".

    So yeah, sell off what you can, anything else left over, sell as a lot on ebay or donate to orphans.
     
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    TRU currently has this promotion of purchase of $100 worth of POTP and/or Studio Series products and receive a SS01 Bumblebee battle damaged version free. Bought 2 POTP Novastar and Inferno and Solus Prime at the current sale price and got it.

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    I am in the same situation as you. I have a LOT of transformers and based on my current tracking count I must have at least 1100+ transformers and that's not even counting anything before year 2000. Sadly as a lot of others in this thread have pointed out, it's all but near impossible to sell it all even at crazy discount prices. Problem is that nobody will want to take a collection over because of the lack of space. It's not like anyone lives in a mansion and can display everything. And then to display it all, need to do inventory and accessories check. Now if you were in USA or somewhere people have big homes it's slightly more likely but then again it's just the big hassle of doing inventory check and accessories check.

    Selling via Carousell works but you can't possibly individually list everything out. Then if you group items to sell you are inevitably going to get people pinging you non-stop to only want to buy one item out of that group of items. Trust me, it's going to be problematic. Selling in bulk to a store, that store is going to have to "clean, verify re-check" and then try to resell which brings me back to the same issue I mentioned above. A lot of work for very little gain.


    I saw this but wasn't sure if the deal was actually all that good but the battle damage Bee in your pictures look good. Is it a straight repaint of an already existing old mold or is it some new Studio Series mold?
     
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    Periodic culling of one's collection does help to maintain yr collection (& sanity).
     
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    Hi Everyone,

    Quick question, does anyone know what is the normal retail price for Power of the Primes Predaking? You know the normal price at Toysrus? Oddly enough I hardly see it anywhere.

    Thanks
     
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    Guys correct me if I'm wrong, retail should be $300 and the reason you don't see it at other dept stores is due to it being a TRU exclusive.

    Few pages back, there was a discount @ $200 for a few days IIRC.

    If you are in no hurry to get it, Amazon will have lelong sales, same price drop happened to Fort Max and Trypticon.
     
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    The battle damaged Bumblebee is the same mold as SS01.

    Yup, TRU RRP for Predaking is $299.99. Specialty shop selling ard $248 when it was released. TRU had a National Day 20% sale for OCBC cardholders +10% for TRU members, Predaking mostly sold off during that period.
     
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    Oh I do sell off stuff I dont want anymore but I dont expect it to sell.
     
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    Currently Amazon Prime (not amazon website) has it for $220.82.
    Since it is over $60, it qualifies for free shipping.

    Either people reserved before the sale, or TRU kept them away from the sale. One day before the sale, the stack at TRU Tampines was no where to be seen.
    The only TRU I saw having them was the Parkway Parade branch.
     
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    where got sell punch counterpunch?
     
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    Locally no have yet, but all the toy shops have PO for Oct/Nov batch.

    You could order from Amazon.com but they ran out of stock. Their price is similar to local price of 40~45 after adding shipping.

    TRU might bring it in but it'll probably be 70 dollar like their Repugnus and Blast Off.
     
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    Is anywhere selling Snarl and Sludge (potp)? Tru seems to be selling deluxes for a very reasonable $25, but neither of the 2 I've been to (paragon and suntec) have either of them.
     
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    POTP Snarl and Sludge only appeared in wave 2, which you may not find at TRU now since it is filled with Wave 3 and 4 now, and some like Tampines has made way for Cyberverse and BB Movie figures. Last Friday I was at Vivocity and dont recall seeing both these figures.

    You might want to try Metro or Kiddy Palace (retail price if you can find it though). OG is flooded with wave 3 and wave 4 just arrived a couple of weeks ago. The only Dinobot repacked is Slug in wave 4.

    Or you could wait out and see if Hasbro has it in their warehouse waiting for clearance (pre Xmas sale maybe).
     
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    Well drats. Only here until tomorrow. Wave 2 doesn't seem to be a thing in the UK, so was hoping to pick them up hereabouts.
     
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    Try your luck at the airport. There is a toy shop called Kaboom in the departure hall after you clear customs.
     
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    No Snarls to be seen anywhere (did see Sludge in a Metro but for full price I wouldn't get one without the other).

    Kaboom has an interesting selection though, so thanks darkavenger for pointing me in their direction - picked up a reissue Starscream for reasonable money. They also have the recent Blast Off/Repugnus figures for a very reasonable 46.64 sgd - much cheaper than tru.
     
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    Saw on the Falcon’s Hangar website that they have it for 40 dollars.
     
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    Yup got their PO collection notification this afternoon
     
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    RBRB and TFH both have stock for P/CP, MP17+ and SS Deluxe wave 3.

    Ah, Metro centerpoint has SS DLX W3 too, with 20% off. Oso hav Cyberverse Warrior w2 if anyone care...
     

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